Paul Alfred Pételot

Paul Alfred Pételot
Born1885
Saint-Max, France
Died1965
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Entomology
InstitutionsNancy-Université
Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Saigon
Institute of Agronomic Research, Saigon
Author abbrev. (botany)Pételot

Paul Alfred Pételot (1885–1965)[1] was a French botanist and entomologist, whose primary scholarly focus was on medicinal plants in Southeast Asia.[2] Some sources list his date of death as 1940,[2] but several herbaria specimens are recorded as being collected by him up until 1944 including Carex kucyniakii (1944),[3] Teijsmanniodendron peteloti (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1942), Trichosanthes kerrii (1944) and Siraitia siamensis (1944).[4] In addition, he continued to author publications through the 1950s, though it is possible these are posthumous.[5][6]

Life

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Pételot was born in Saint-Max, France in 1885. His first professional posting was in 1908 as a member of the botany faculty at Nancy-Université. He then worked in Brazil and St. Petersburg, Russia before returning to France. In 1919 he was working in the cryptogamy department of the French National Museum of Natural History (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle) and had been accepted as a member of the French Society of Plant Pathology (Société de Pathologie végétale de France) and the Botanical Society of France (Societe Botanique de France). He then moved to Southeast Asia and in 1922 joined the entomological station of Cho-Gank (Tonkin) and became a professor at the Hanoi School of Agriculture.[7] He moved to Saigon to become a lecturer at the Mixed Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie) and then led the botanical division of the Scientific and Technical Research Center (Centre de Recherces Scientifiques et Techniques). He was elected as a laureate of the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences).[2]

Work

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He collected a large number of botanical specimens from Southeast Asia which have been deposited in the French National Museum of Natural History.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Pételot is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

Legacy

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He is the authority on botanical taxa including: IPNI. List of plant names with authority Pételot .

Several taxa are named in his honor including:

References

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  1. ^ "Pételot, (Paul) Alfred". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Pételot, Paul Alfred (1885c.1940)". JSTOR Global Plants. ITHAKA. n.d. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  3. ^ Chalmers-Brooks, Katie (2020). "The Seekers". UM Today Magazine. Spring 2020.
  4. ^ "Index of Botanical Specimens". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanical Specimens. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. n.d. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  5. ^ Pételot, Paul Alfred (1952–54). Les plantes médicinales du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam [Medicinal plants from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam] (in French). Vol. 1–4. Saigon: Archives des Researches Agronomiques et Pastorales au Viêtnam.
  6. ^ Pételot, A (1955). Bibliographie Botanique de l'Indochine [Botanical Bibliography of Indochina] (in French). Saigon: État du Vietnam, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques et Techniques.
  7. ^ Loyer, Maurice (1924). "Rapport au nom de la Commission des Recompenses" [Report on behalf of the Compensation Commission]. Bulletin de la Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France (in French): 225.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Pételot.
  9. ^ "Petelotiella Gagnep. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
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